The Jam

Welcome to the Eggplant Game Jam! Or as it is more affectionately known in the community: The Eggjam 🍆🫙

In keeping with A Year of UFO 50 the eggjams are following suit and will be inspired by the games covered by the podcast. For this jam our inspirations will be:

1. Barbuta
2. Bug Hunter
3. Ninpek
4. Paint Chase
5. Magic Garden
6. Mortol
7. Velgress
8. Planet Zoldath
9. Attactics

As for what to make, here are some fine ideas from some of our lovely eggjammers:

• Make a UFO 50 mod (Brendan)
• Follow the colour palette and input scheme of a UFO 50 game (Brett Fritzke)
• Create a sequel to one of the existing games (Cody Mace)
• Prequels: make the prototypes the developers might have made (Kevin)
• Clone a UFO50 game, then diverge accordingly (Brendan)
• It doesn't need to match the UFO50 asthetic: make Barbuta 64 for example (Cody Mace)
• Bootleg LX games (Kevin)
• UFO 50 as a wooden board game with a shared set of pieces (Hayden Scott-Baron)
• A fake manual or guide for a game which doesn’t exist (Hayden Scott-Baron)
• Make a design document and/or prototype images/video/etc (mapsandapps)

For discussion and updates on the jam please join us in the#eggplant-gamejam channel of the Discord server.

All previous eggjams, and jam entries, can be found on the jams page

Restrictions

None. Make something you are happy to share, digital or otherwise. Feel free to reuse existing graphics, code, sound, etc.

What is Eggplant?

The normal podcast is Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games and it features candid conversations with game creators that dive deep into the art, craft, and process of making games.

But until September 2025 it has become Eggplant Presents: A Year of UFO 50, a 1-year weekly show covering every game in the UFO 50 collection.

Check it out here!

The Eggplant Show podcast community can largely be found hanging out in the show's Discord server—Join us at discord.gg/eggplant!

Code of Conduct

All games should follow the ethos of the Discord server's Code of Conduct as outlined in the #rules channel.

To the point for these jams: your game must not include any content that is NSFW, or offensive/discriminatory to others.

Hosts

This jam page was brought to you by broquaint (on itch and everywhere else!). Please let me know if you have any questions or if anything here needs to be changed. Huge thanks to MatthewLacker (aka gab on Discord) for running previous jams!